Three Tips For Learning A New Programming Language Fast

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Learning a new language is no easy task, and for programming languages, it’s no simpler.

There are many reasons people want to learn to code, with some doing it ultimately to start a new career and others because they enjoy it.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the demand for software developers will increase by 24% from 2016 to 2026. With the rise of technology year after year, the demand for coding isn’t going anywhere. Ultimately, your coding knowledge could land you a job as a developer if that’s the route you’re interested in.

With thousands of resources, boot camps, courses and online tutorials, people can now learn to code on their own and at a comfortable pace. Whether you're new to coding or an experienced programmer wanting to learn a new language, here are three tips to help you get started.

1. Take Advantage Of Online Resources

The internet gives you an endless wealth of information at your fingertips, and you should take full advantage of it. Learning a new program won’t happen overnight, but you can speed along the process with the right tools.

Based on a study conducted by Stanford University, experienced programmers rely primarily on four things when searching for information to learn a new coding language:

  • Google searches
  • Documentation
  • Example code
  • Q&A sites

What you need to do is find the right resources and tools to start.

  • Codecademy is an entirely free, interactive online software that teaches you coding in up to 12 programming languages.
  • Coursera provides online courses on programming languages taught by real professors.
  • freeCodeCamp is a coding class that lets you work at your own pace and with a real team of developers to build solutions.

The more you practice writing code, the quicker you’ll succeed at learning it fluently.

  • Git lets you take snapshots of your code as you practice creating it so that you can see the process in front of you. If you want to revert back to earlier code, you have the option to do so. It works well with both large and small projects.

  • Stack Overflow is the largest online community of developers and programmers on the web. It partners with businesses to answer developers’ questions and help them with any errors.

2. Use Second-Language Acquisition

Learning any new program is no easy task. If you want to learn a programming language faster, you have to treat it the same way you’d treat learning a spoken language. Start by using second-language acquisition (SLA).

SLA is the process and method of learning a second language as well as the scientific disciplines that come with it.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University conducted a study about the effect of integrating SLA theories into learning a new programming language. The results showed that when students learned a new program with a cognitive framework, they were able to learn quicker and more effectively. In a cognitive framework, cognitions come before behavior and enhance a person’s perception, ability to process information, thinking patterns, problem-solving skills and more.

To succeed in learning a new program, you need to have a clear mental model. The study describes this as “how someone explains their thought process and how it operates in the real world through our experiences in life.” If you don’t possess a clear mental model of your programs and how they operate as systems, you may still be able to understand certain elements, but it’ll be difficult for you to grasp them in their entirety.

3. Don’t Cram Information

According to a research study performed by UCLA, cramming information is associated with more learning problems and less sleep. Your ability to retain information while cramming decreases, and your brain only remembers the beginning and end of your study sessions.

To overcome the urge to cram while learning a new programming language, set up a study schedule, and stick to it. It’s more beneficial to study in 20- or 30-minute blocks rather than hours at a time so you don’t experience fatigue, lethargy and boredom. It’s easier to stay motivated when you grant yourself breaks in between study periods for better focus and frame of mind.

If you’re trying to eventually learn several coding languages, which is very possible with enough time and effort, take one language at a time.

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If you’re thinking about learning a new programming language, these tips will help you do it faster. There’s no magic solution to suddenly understanding a new program, but patience and persistence will help you get there sooner. By applying methods of learning a second spoken language to learning a programming language, you’ll be able to grasp the material faster.

There’s also no better way to learn than to practice in real time. Take time every day to develop your own code, and test it for errors so you grasp the material quicker. Soon enough, you’ll be able to say you understand a new programming language.


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In some cases, it took weeks before supplies reached the hardest hit areas of the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian spent more than a day spinning over islands, ripping away roofs, inundating ground floors and taking lives.

Lydia Ruth Hill, who is the ninth generation of her family to live on Abaco, evacuated her parent's coastal home but watched it disintegrate over the next day.

She spoke to the Sun by cellphone.

"From my brother's apartment, we can see my parent's house," she said. "From the window, we watched the roof come off. My dad has a 42-foot boat and we saw (the storm) overturn it — it's now 250 feet away from the water."

Two of her relatives are missing, cousins of her father.

The relatives, an elderly brother and sister, "were living on Front Street of Abaco that doesn't even exist anymore," Hill said. "Anyone who has been found has just been bodies. That area is about a mile from The Mudd and Peas."

Not that any area was spared, but The Mudd was virtually obliterated. Hundreds of homes were swept away or crushed by shipping cargo containers pushed by storm surge into the community.

Nobody has any idea what the death toll is for The Mudd.

Officially, the Bahamian death toll is 61 with about 800 missing — but locals suggest the actual death toll is more than 1,000, perhaps 1,500.

Up from The Mudd and Peas is where Hill and others opened an emergency supply center in a church. The church, New Vision International, is heavily damaged but usable — with donations set up in the sanctuary.

Hill's group has named itself Abaco Hands and Feet, based on the fact they are helping each other in some very basic ways.

It is one place where donations from Agape Flights, based in Venice, is going. Coming in through its planes, Agape has teamed up with Mission of Hope, which has its ship, True North, docked in Abaco.

Together, they are moving needed donations in and around the island.

Mission of Hope has taken more than 16,500 pounds of Agape donations by sea; Convoy of Hope has transported 12,000 pounds of Agape donations by sea to the Bahamas.

Between the ships and its own aircraft, Agape has delivered more than 48,500 pounds of donated relief supplies.

"People need to stay involved or get involved," said TJ Heitz, of Mission of Hope.

Heitz and his group were among the first disaster relief personnel to arrive after Hurricane Dorian.

"Prayer is a big thing. Continue to send water, food. That's going to become an issue as some of these organizations start to pull out."

The time before they were able to show up was critical — and deadly — for people in Marsh Harbour and other areas on Abaco.

"Our first 48 hours was about survival," Hill said.

But she has appreciated the aid that has arrived.

First, it came from other Bahama islands that weren't as affected.

She said the people of Abaco had helped other islands following vicious storms in the past. This time, those islanders reciprocated.

Then it came from Agape, Mission of Hope and other groups. But it has yet to come from the government, she said.

Largely, Abaco residents remain on their own. One store opened with few supplies and high prices, but she doesn't mind.

Power barely is available. People can spend $200 for generator fuel that runs a few hours in the morning and evening but most people are simply going without.

So she has the work of Abaco Hands and Feet.

"Miss Lydia has been wonderful. I've never met anyone like her. I've never met no one with her spirit," volunteer Mark Pierre said.

Pierre has been left homeless and emotionally wrecked by the storm. He appreciates feeling like he has a purpose, working "with a good heart" for the Lord, he said.

He has only praise for Hill.

"I've never seen anyone like her."

"We're all kind of like family now. Close to 40 of us," Hill  said. "We realized the need for a shelter, so we opened a shelter."

Agape Flights put out a new list for supplies on Friday, seeking "immediate needs" that must be collected by 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17. It includes macaroni and cheese dry mix in a box; canned soups; canned beef; Spam; tuna in water; canned sardines in tomato juice or oil; Vienna sausages; ramen noodles in cups; and Carnation evaporated milk.

Collection hours are from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday.

The group asks people donating to sort and box similar items together.

The items will be going to another hard hit area: Freeport.

"Because of (the Agape) ministry, because of their work, we were able to get some things to some people to make their lives a little bit better," said Ken Lane, a minister with Luceyan Presbyterian Church in Freeport.

People appreciate the Venice organization.

"I've been so thankful for how Agape has answered our needs when we reached out to them. How they've responded faithfully, bringing supplies — everything we've needed," said Natalie Pierson, praise and worship team member of Luceyan Presbyterian Church.


Time: Why We Can't Stop Texting and Driving

Once smartphones arrived in the hands of the masses, it didn’t take long for drivers to start using them behind the wheel — not only to make calls, but also to send text messages.

Even more alarming: studies showed that the presence of passengers, even child passengers, didn’t seem to deter drivers from using their shiny new toys.

Distracted driving crashes began to spike, safety campaigns were launched, and now the warnings are everywhere. Signs, billboards, stickers, television and radio ads, even paid search results. The messages use every imaginable hook: statistics, tragic stories, disturbing crash pictures, even analogies between smartphones, booze and guns.

But 10 years later, as the crash numbers continue to rise, we’re realizing that the safety campaigns have produced humble results. Recent follow-up studies show that, despite our efforts to curb the practice, drivers in the U.S. use their phones on roughly 88% of all trips and more than half of all young drivers reported engaging in hands-on, head-down reading or typing during the past 30 days. As one journalist summarized these findings about who’s still using their phone in the car: “Damn near everybody … damn near all the time.”

Drivers ignore the warnings and continue to use their phones for a simple reason: they’re just not convinced that it’s all that dangerous. To understand why, we need to reflect on how humans evaluate risk. When going about our everyday affairs, we use our common sense and our experience to guide us. The first time we have what feels like an urgent text or email to answer while driving, we give it a shot and see how it goes. After a few tries, it seems to work out just fine. After all, when we’re using our phone, we think that if something unusual happens right before our very eyes, we’re going to notice it. Even when we go head-down to text or use an app, we know that we can switch our attention between road and phone, and that we can look up more frequently when we notice that traffic is getting worse. When we’re stopped at a red light, we can pick up our phone and then put it back down again when the light turns green. These are the powerful common sense notions that guide us through everyday life on the road.

The problem with these common sense notions is that for the most part they’re wrong. Despite our intuitions to the contrary, our attention will not be instantly grabbed by that disaster unfolding in front of us even when we’re looking in that direction. A famous experiment involving a gorilla illustrated how we’re really not good at noticing things that we’re not specifically looking for, and that having our eyes pointed at something is only the first step toward “seeing” it. But what about looking up from our phone more frequently when traffic gets thick? Unfortunately, our common sense notions don’t reflect how deeply entrenched we get when we’re engaged in something interesting. When the latest news pops up on our phone, sometimes we’re a little distracted and sometimes we’re gone. Driving studies demonstrate that us noticing when traffic gets worse is far from a guarantee and that sometimes when we pick up our phones we’re not even consciously aware that we’re doing it. But how about texting at the light? What could possibly be wrong with that? Well, when we put down our phones and return our attention to the driving task, it can actually take almost a half a minute for our brains to reorient and resume processing what our eyes are looking at once again.

The time has come to address this problem at its source. We need to realign our common sense notions with the truth about our powerful, creative but sometimes fallible minds. We need to understand that our attention-paying abilities amount to something less than a swivel-mounted, multidirectional surveillance apparatus. That we err and miss things a bit more often than we care to admit. And that the hazards presented by our newest of innovations can be subtle, hidden, or even invisible — far outstripping our abilities to reason about them in simple ways.

But how do we get millions of people to study the user’s guide to their own injury-prone minds? We’ll have to launch safety campaigns to orient us to the very idea that our minds simply don’t work the way we think they do. We’ll have to train parents to provide the psychological rationale behind their advice and admonitions to children. We’ll have to convince schools to teach our kids the basics of how our fallible minds work. Manufacturers of cars and phones alike will need to better foresee misuses that spring from our erroneous beliefs, and provide more detailed warnings about how things might go wrong when lockout safety features aren’t possible.

We have reached a technological tipping point. These are not problems we will be able to ignore for much longer. Aside from the rising distracted driving statistics, we will continue to invent new technologies that will stretch our common sense notions to their limits and beyond. Soon we will have wearable devices that allow us to look out at the “real world” through layers of augmented reality. Autonomous cars won’t save us. Some experts say that it might be another 75 years before we have the robot car that we’re all dreaming about today. And when we finally do, what will prevent a distracted pedestrian from stepping out in front of one? We will have to make our move soon — a move beyond hanging a sign on the wall or a billboard by the side of the road. Our more sophisticated world will demand a more sophisticated understanding of ourselves.

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They evolved one hundred years ago for an era of economies of scale and relative stability and predictability. Our environment is changing exponentially, mainly driven by exponential technologies and globalization. As a result, the world is becoming increasingly open and transparent and we are slowly moving from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance. Exponential Organizations lays the framework for organizations to adapt and thrive in a world of abundance by diving into new organizational structures that leverage exponential technologies and a shifting global business mindset.

Salim Ismail is the lead author of Exponential Organizations.

He has spent many years researching and developing insights about this new paradigm in organizational design. Since writing Exponential Organizations he founded ExO Works — a leading-edge consulting company that supports organizations in their transformation journey.

He has since founded Singularity University Netherlands. He contributed to many of the ideas and his team extensively researched, validated and ratified all concepts in the book. Which is why, over the last few years, a new organizational scheme congruent with these changes has begun to emerge.

The authors call it the Exponential Organization precisely because it represents the structure best suited to address the accelerated, non-linear, web-driven pace of modern life. And while even cutting- edge traditional companies can only achieve arithmetic outputs per input, an ExO achieves geometric outputs per input by riding the doubling-exponential pattern of information-based technologies. Rather than owning assets or workforces and incrementally seeing a return on those assets, ExOs leverage external resources to achieve their objectives.

For example, they maintain a very small core of employees and facilities, allowing enormous flexibility as margins soar. They enlist their customers and leverage offline and online communities in everything from product design to application development.

Information is your greatest asset. More reliably than any other asset, information has the potential to double regularly. Rather than simply assembling assets, the key to success is accessing valuable caches of existing information. Founded in , Airbnb currently has 1, employees and operates , listings in 33, cities. At its current pace, Airbnb will be the biggest hotelier in the world by late The second is that, thanks to the fact that information is essentially liquid, major business functions can be transferred outside of the organization— to users, fans, partners or the general public.

Not every ExO has all ten attributes but the more it has, the more scalable it tends to be. Even if the company somehow manages to achieve an impressive level of growth, the scale of its business will quickly outpace its business model and leave the company lost and directionless.

Thus, ExOs must aim high. Every ExO has one. Some aim to transform the planet, others just an industry. But radical transformation is the name of the game. For one thing, it moves the focal point of a team from internal politics to external impact.

Why does the organization exist? The MTP is not only an effective attractor and retainer for customers and employees but also for the company ecosystem at large DrFrumi Scaling4Growth.

As a result, it lowers the acquisition, transaction and retention costs of these stakeholders. It is important to note that an Exponential Organization interacting with its community is not simply a transaction.

True community occurs when peer-to-peer engagement occurs. The more open the community, though, the more traditional and best-practice-oriented the leadership model has to be. Use the MTP to attract and engage early members. The MTP serves as a gravitational force that attracts constituents into its orbit.

Nurture the community. Elements of nurturing include listening and giving back. Create a platform to automate peer-to-peer engagement. You open up an idea, funding opportunity or incentive prize… and let people find you. Machine Learning is the ability to accurately perform new, unseen tasks, built on known properties learned from training or historic data, and based on prediction.

It allows a machine to discover new patterns without being exposed to any historical or training data. Gather: The algorithmic process starts with harnessing data, which is gathered via sensors or humans, or imported from public datasets.

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Organize: The next step is to organize the data, a process known as ETL extract, transform and load. Apply: Once the data is accessible, machine learning tools such as Hadoop and Pivotal, or even open source deep learning algorithms like DeepMind, Vicarious and SkyMind, extract insights, identify trends and tune new algorithms.

Expose: The final step is exposing the data, as if it were an open platform. This practice optimizes flexibility and allows the enterprise to scale incredibly quickly as it obviates the need for staff to manage those assets.

For example, Tesla owns its own factories and Amazon its own warehouses. When the asset in question is rare or extremely scarce, then ownership is a better option. But if your asset is information-based or commoditized at all, then accessing is better than possessing.

The biggest impact of engagement techniques is on customers and the entire external ecosystem. However, these techniques can also be used internally with employees to boost collaboration, innovation and loyalty. They are algorithms and automated workflows that route the output of SCALE externalities to the right people at the right time internally.

In many cases, these processes start out manual and gradually become automated around the edges. Eventually, however, they became self-provisioning platforms that enable the ExO to scale. While most processes are optimized around scarcity and efficiency, SCALE elements generate large result sets, meaning Interfaces are geared towards filtering and matching.

Performance evaluations— which are entirely about evaluating how an employee performed in a given period— are independent of OKRs. Objectives are ambitious and should feel uncomfortable.

Many are now implementing high- frequency OKRs— that is, a target per week, month or quarter for each individual or team within a company. By integrating experimentation as a core value and adopting approaches like Lean Startup, enterprise failures— while still accepted as an inevitable part of risk— can be quick, relatively painless and insightful.

Large organizations, such as Zappos, have also adopted this structure across much bigger operations.

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Also in the mix are location, physical objects, ideas and knowledge— including updates to pricing data, inventory levels, meeting room occupancy and even DrFrumi Scaling4Growth. All are now being broadcast company-wide and are the basis of activity streams to which anyone in the organization can subscribe.

In the past, it was mostly used as a to-do list, but it is now shifting towards a more Agile approach. Teams are continuously measuring themselves by pushing codes and closing tickets, living by the metrics that task management software provides.

While Telepresence lets people interact in a real environment, virtual reality allows interaction, collaboration, coordination and even prototyping in a virtual world. Employees will be able to measure everything about themselves and their work, preventing illness, burnout and irritation, and also improving team flow, collaboration and performance. Organizational intimacy is increased, decision latency is reduced, knowledge improves and is more widely spread, and serendipity increases.

In short, social technologies enable the real-time enterprise. In industry after industry, the development cycle for products and services grows ever shorter. As we add trillions of sensors on every device, process and person, the process will accelerate even faster to an almost unimaginable pace Big Data.

Drive To Demonetization o One of the most important— and least celebrated— achievements of the Internet during the last decade was that it cut the marginal cost of marketing and sales to nearly zero. And, in concert with a viral referral loop, customer acquisition costs can also be cut to what was once deemed impossible: zero.

Disruption is the New Norm o Today, the outsider has all the advantages. With no legacy systems to worry about, as well as the ability to enjoy low overhead and take advantage of the democratization of information and— more important— technology, the newcomer can move quickly and with a minimum of expense.

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Thus, new actors and entrants are well equipped to attack almost any market, o The rate of change is so high everywhere these days that you now must assume that someone will disrupt you, and often from a direction you least expect. Death to the Five-Year Plan o In an exponential world, the five-year plan is not only unworkable, it is seriously counterproductive— and the advent of ExOs signals its death.

This may seem counterintuitive. The only solution is to establish a big vision i. Smaller Beats Bigger o For decades, scale and size have been desirable traits in an enterprise.

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A bigger company could do more, the argument went, because it could leverage economies of scale and negotiate from strength. The unparalleled and unprecedented ability of a small team today to do big things— an ability that grows ever greater if the exponential technologies described previously are put to use.

Asset Leverage: Engagement creates network ripples and feedback cycles that are far-reaching. Tools like game logic empower people so they can make progress on the scale. Information Accelerates Everything: In , million films were produced for analog photo cameras. Already in , just 10 years later, more than billion digital photographs were captured, equivalent to 8 billion analog film rolls. Today, internet users upload an average of 1 billion photos a day.

The more sensors available, the more information is created at ever-increasing speeds. Analyzing these data is a new need called Big Data, which, when used by companies, leads to exponential growth.

That also creates network effects, in which companies capture an unbelievable amount of data that leads to monopolies like Google and Amazon. Focus on Demonetization: One of the most important and celebrated effects of the internet is that it took the marginal costs of marketing and sales to almost zero. On the internet, you can promote a product worldwide for a fraction of the cost that existed 25 years ago. In companies like Uber, for example, it costs almost zero to add a new driver to your platform.

Disruption becomes the pattern: Beware of Experts: History shows us that seldom disruptive innovations come from experts. Usually, they come from people who have new perspectives on an established field;. The Death of 5-Year Planning: In the exponential world, long-term plans become counterproductive and ineffective. The small one surpasses the big one: The important thing is to get to exponential growth as quickly as possible to become a platform because once this occurs, growth limits disappear;.

Renting instead of buying: Everything exists on demand, and the initial costs tend to be smaller, which makes access to capital less important;. Openness becomes an essential component: Open platforms inspire more confidence than closed platforms. What is predictable will become automated, and the human will play an increasingly important role in what is not predictable;. Everything becomes measurable: Step 1: Get started with the question: What big problem is my company looking to solve?

Understand space and create purpose aligned with it. Elon Musk chose to revolutionize the automotive industry through electric cars and solar energy company Solar City.

Recently, Elon revisited his purpose and realigned his MTP to focus on revolutionizing the entire energy industry, not just the automotive industry.

Step 2: Create communities or join your MTP. Connect with people aligned with a vision similar to yours. Make the decisions of your company based on the interests of this community;.Malone is the author or co-author of nearly twenty award-winning books, including Exponential Organizations. For example, they maintain a very small core of employees and facilities, allowing enormous flexibility as margins soar.

Transform leadership. Elon Musk chose to revolutionize the automotive industry through electric cars and solar energy company Solar City. At the same time, established companies must transform themselves or they will quickly become obsolete. And all with a minimum of resources and time. It closes the gap between the linear organization and its exponential environment. As knowledge about the most diverse disciplines spreads, the volume of information in the world begins to double almost annually;.

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Scientists left baffled over lost ancient city Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan

Scientists left baffled over lost ancient city Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan

Archeologists are still no closer to understanding who occupied the ancient city of Mohenjo Daro in modern-day Pakistan during the third millennium BCE.

Researchers first visited the site in 1911 and various excavations were carried out in the 1920s through to 1931. Subsequent digs took place in 1950 and 1964, which provided fascinating glimpses into the ideology and beliefs of the city’s inhabitants. The well-planned street grid and an elaborate drainage system suggest that the occupants were skilled urban planners, for whom the control of water was of utmost importance, wrote.

The city has no grandiose monuments such as palaces, temples or monuments.

It lacks an obvious central seat of government and there are no indications that the city was ruled over by an established monarchy.

Modesty, order and in particular cleanliness appeared to be qualities that were highly prized by the city’s inhabitants.

A watertight pool called the Great Bath is the closest structure Mohenjo Daro has to a temple.

According to Indus expert Gregory Possehl of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, this suggests an ideology based on cleanliness.

Wells were found throughout the city, and nearly every house contained a bathing area and drainage system, which would appear to back up Possehl’s theory.

During its heyday from about 2500 to 1900 BCE, the city was among the most important to the Indus Civilization.

According to University of Wisconsin, Madison, archeologist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, the mounds grew organically over the centuries as people kept building platforms and walls for their houses.

"You have a high promontory on which people are living," he said.

Its wealth and stature is evident in artefacts such as ivory, lapis, carnelian, and gold beads, as well as the baked-brick city structures themselves.

The demise of the Indus Civilization and Mohenjo Daro is also a mystery.

By 1900 BCE many Indus cities had been abandoned, but historians believe things started to fall apart around 1700 BCE.

Some historians think that a collapse of trade with the Indus’ major trading partner, Mesopotamia, was to blame.

Around the time the Indus cities started to fail, Mesopotamia, an advanced civilization in the Middle East, was going through huge political problems.

This led to the unravelling of its trade networks which would have had a huge impact on the Indus cities.

Others surmise that war was the likeliest cause behind the demise of the Indus.

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During the first three decades of the People’s Republic, Communist Party elites pursued a revolutionary political, economic, and social paradigm, whose long-term goal was to develop a strong national security, ensure prosperity, and strengthen the Party’s comprehensive control of the state. Elites eliminated all foreign religious connections, which were replaced with Party-approved religious organizations. The adoption of the techno-economic paradigm in the 1980s created high economic growth rates as well as widespread corruption that threatened Party’s legitimacy. In response, the Communist Party adapted the revolutionary social paradigm and initiated a moral re-armament campaign. Elites used traditional religions and beliefs to strengthen moral standards and to supplement the state’s social welfare role. Elites however were less trusting of foreign religions, because of their complicated history, their continued foreign connections, and their non-sanctioned religious practices. As long as elites retain the revolutionary social paradigm and its emphasis on Party primacy, elites will continue to favour traditional religions and beliefs while discriminating against foreign religions and heterodox religious movements.

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A little background for myself. I am relatively experienced with 3rd part physics engines such as Havok, Box2D, Bullet and have successfully integrated them in custom engine(s). I have also made a simple physics engine by following a few known books.

Now I am interested in diving into vehicle physics. There are a couple of books that skim over the topic but do not go over in enough detail for me to grasp anything useful. So I would like to know of good books/resources that are not too heavy (by that I mean a book that is pure vehicles and made for engineers rather than game developers) that help me get started on vehicle physics. Here get started = at least guide me through creating a simple vehicle in 3D with modern features found in most games (suspension/transmission etc.)

Note: I searched for a similar question but did not find one, but if one exists, please post the link and feel free to close the question.

This blog has four links (the third is broken), the first of which seems like an amazing resource, the others seem pretty great too. I'm probably going to read over this just for funsies, should be a good read.

You could take a look at the Rigs of Rods engine, it's an open source soft-body vehicule simulator, it may give you some insight into how it's done, but could be too complex for what you want to do. Also, reading though other people's code may not be what you want to do; nevertheless it could be inspiring.

Digital Rune gives some simple info on their implementation of car physics.

  • \$\begingroup\$ This site is no longer available :( \$\endgroup\$ – JamesAMD Aug 7 '15 at 0:52
  • \$\begingroup\$ Please summarize links as they pertain to the question and answer. Links die. \$\endgroup\$ – kdbanman Sep 24 '15 at 3:21

If you want to just get something reasonable going, I can't more heartily recommend the talk http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4776766805683353325 by the physics programmer on rallycross. (a shipped game on the PS1 back in 1997, so it's very quick on modern hardware and arguably implementable in higher level languages that aren't as efficient at math as they could be)

  • \$\begingroup\$ I believe this link may be the same thing, and it actually works! \$\endgroup\$ – aardvarkk Jun 5 '14 at 21:22

I know this is an old question, but if I stumbled upon it so might others.

While it is a walkthrough for getting a car setup in the Unity3D engine, this tutorial goes through a lot of what is necessary and the concepts should be transferable enough.

  • \$\begingroup\$ Unfortunately link does no longer point to the car tutorial. \$\endgroup\$ – D. Visser Jun 26 '18 at 14:07


Problem: There are three fixed positive charges $latex +q$ equally spaced on a circle (see the picture). At the center of the circle is a negative charge $latex -q$. Prove that the negative charge at the center of the circle does not move.

My first instinct was to introduce a coordinate system, calculate all the Coulomb forces on the negative charge, and show that these forces all summed to 0. But there is a much more beautiful and powerful way to solve the problem! All you need to know is that the force one charge exerts on another is directly proportional to the product of their charges, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them – and you don’t need to do any calculations.

Let’s suppose the negative charge does move. Then, it has to choose a certain direction in which to start moving (see picture below). So far, so good. Now, move the central charge back to the center and rotate the entire system 120 degrees clockwise about the center. The initial direction the negative charge will move towards is now rotated 120 degrees. But wait – the entire system is exactly the same as before – all the charges are in the same place (imagine someone called your name and you looked away while your sneaky friend rotated the whole system 120 degrees – when you looked back, you would think that nothing happened)! This means, in fact, that the negative charge should move in the direction it started moving before we rotated the system! This is a contradiction, since the negative charge cannot move in two different directions at the same time. If you rotate the system by 120 degrees again, you can see that the negative charge actually has to move in three different directions all at once! You can see why this is a problem. The negative charge gets confused and cannot move.

Notice how much simpler the above analysis, a symmetry argument, was compared to calculating three Coulomb forces individually and using trigonometry to show the forces cancelled (assuming you even know how to compute Coulomb forces)! The symmetry argument also works with any number of equally-spaced positive charges on the circle, where $latex n ge 2$ (why doesn’t it work for $latex n = 1?$). Can you imagine calculating $latex n=1000$ forces and showing they all summed component-wise to 0?

Symmetry arguments are extremely powerful in physics, and many physicists will use them without even thinking about it. If you want some more practice, try Problem 1. If you’re feeling daring, try Problem 2 below (though you might need more than symmetry arguments to solve it)!

Problem 1: An infinite sheet of charge is located on the x-y plane. The charge on the sheet is uniformly distributed. A test charge is placed at some point outside the plane. Prove that the force felt by the test charge does not depend on its x- or y-coordinate. (I haven’t yet told you how to calculate the Coulomb force due to an extended body, but you don’t need that. Either you can break the sheet into tiny pieces which you treat as point charges, or better yet, just ask yourself how the charge configuration appears to change when you move a little in the x- or y-direction).

Problem 2: Prove that the force felt by the test charge does not depend on its z-coordinate. (This is harder, but you can do it! And you can do it without performing any explicit calculations. Break the sheet into concentric rings and think about the contribution from each ring. You may find a discussion of Olbers’ paradox helpful).

To mathematicians, the word elegant has a very specific meaning. A mathematically elegant proof is one that is short, simple, and reveals some profound new insight. A mathematically elegant problem is one that has an elegant solution. It was really the elegant problems that got me excited about math and physics while I was in high school.

For two other arguments that struck me so poignantly that I remember them to this day, continue reading. We’re outside the realm of symmetry arguments, now, and Problem 4 is completely unrelated to everything else in this post, but these problems are very elegant nonetheless!

Problem 3: Prove that the rate at which a body falls is independent of its mass. (Neglect air resistance)

Solution 3

[due to Galileo]: Suppose that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. Take two balls – one a 10 kg ball, the other a 5 kg ball, and drop them off the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The 10 kg ball should land first. Now, tie the two balls together with a piece of rope. One line of reasoning will tell you that the 5 kg ball will slow down the 10 kg ball since the latter is attached to a slower falling object, so the time it takes for the combined system to reach the ground will be somewhere between the times it took the individual balls to reach the ground. Another line of reasoning will tell you that the combined system is heavier (15 kg + weight of rope) and thus will hit the ground faster than the standalone 10 kg ball did. We’ve reached a contradiction – it can’t be the case that the combined system reaches the ground both before and after the 10 kg ball would. Thus heavier objects cannot fall faster than lighter objects. I leave to you the case where lighter objects fall faster and the case where the acceleration due to gravity is not a monotonic function of mass.

Problem 4: Prove that there exist infinitely many prime numbers.

Don’t look at the following hint unless you’re really stuck!

Hint: There are many solutions to Problem 4, but the most elegant is due to Euclid. Let’s assume there are finitely many primes $latex p_1, p_2, p_3, ldots p_n$. Can you think of a way to create a new prime number from this list?

I hope these problems will inspire you as they inspired me when I was younger. Good luck!

P. S. I realized I forgot to introduce myself! My name’s Mo. I’m a rising senior at Caltech. This summer I’ve been working directly under Spiros in the Preskill group. More on me to come, but for now I’ll just say that like Shaun, I’m very surprised they’re giving a hooligan like myself the keys to the blog.


Based on a popular Japanese manga, the player takes on the role of Golgo 13 (also known as Duke Togo), an assassin whose objective is to destroy the leader of the Drek group. On the way, Golgo 13 must pass through several areas, including East Berlin, Athens, and Alexander Island, off the coast of Antarctica. It is necessary to navigate several mazes in order to win, but one maze is a fake base with no way out. The mazes account for a large amount of the frustration players encounter with this game. The instruction manual contains maps for the mazes.


SFMTA to hold open house on safer streets after deadly crash

Following Sunday's collision where two pedestrians from the Fresno area were hit, killing one of them, we want to highlight an area of the city deemed the most dangerous. Seventy-five percent of San Francisco's severe injuries and fatalities occur in the Tenderloin District. That's the discussion of a city meeting that's underway, where solutions will be given to solve this crisis.


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Found in the rainforests of New Guinea and Northeastern Australia, these colorful flightless birds look like flamboyant ostriches wearing razor-like helmets. They are the third largest birds in the world (behind only the ostrich and the emu), and unlike many species of bird, it's the female cassowary — rather than the male — that is typically more brightly colored.


A local man has been left baffled after stumbling across a suspected exotic shark along a Plymouth beauty spot.

The Plymouth resident, who doesn't want to be named, was hosting a community event with families down at Ernesettle Creek when he came across the lifeless three-and-a-half foot long monster in shallow water.

He took snaps of the majestic grey and black beast in the hope fish boffins could back up his claims he'd uncovered a Nursehound catshark - more commonly found in tropical waters in and around the Med.

Online data suggests it's not uncommon to see the spotted nocturnal creatures swimming in breeding grounds off local coastal areas like Wembury.

"It was very unusual in that it was in a tidal pool, that's not where you would expect to find this sort of marine animal," the man said.

"It's miles from where it should be.

"I help to run community events down in areas like Ernesettle Creek - I was with some families when all of a sudden I came across it.

"It was just an unusual thing to see.

"Talking to some of the local people in the area, the same sort of species was found down at Kinterbury Creek (between Barne Barton and St Budeaux on the Tamar Estuary).

The spotted shark washed up on Ernesettle Creek is believed to be a Nursehound
What a beauty! The spotted shark washed up on Ernesettle Creek
What a beauty! The spotted shark washed up on Ernesettle Creek

"It was probably about three-and-a-half foot long - it's a fair size. It seemed to me like it was a Nursehound shark."

He suspects a fishing 'trophy hunter' dumped the Nursehound back in the water and washed up on the shore.

He said whales and larger sharks often become 'disorientated' in waters they're not accustomed to and die - particularly fresh water.

Though it also comes around the same time Plymouth has enjoyed tropical climes with temperatures peaking around the 30C mark.

The discovery follows a number of other sightings in the area
The discovery follows a number of other sightings in the area

Plymouth-based Shark Trust has confirmed that it appears to be a 'relatively fresh' looking Nursehound - which can reach a size of 1.6m in length.

Shark Trust Conservation officer John Richardson said: "This is a great little British shark, which can reach of a max size of around 1.6m in length.

Nursehounds are found in intertidal waters (depths of 1-2m), down to at least 125m. Squid and octopus dominate their diet, with crustaceans (e.g. crabs) and bony fish (including mackerel, gurnards, flatfish) also important.

"They are also recorded as preying on other other sharks - including the Smallspotted Catshark.

He added: "I can only speculate on what led to this shark's demise. Nursehounds are caught by anglers - perhaps this indvidual did not survive catch and realise.

"Similarly, the species is taken as bycatch by commercial vessels, possibly this individual did not survive discarding."

The discovery of the black and grey beast reportedly follows a number of similar sightings in the area.

Online records say Nursehounds are normally found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and are generally found among rocks or algae at a depth of 20–60 m (66–197 ft).

Experts at Plymouth-based research facility The Shark Trust have been contacted for comment.

What's a Nursehound?

Wiki data says the nursehound, also known as the large-spotted dogfish, greater spotted dogfish or bull huss, is a species of catshark, belonging to the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.

Nursehounds are more commonly found in the northeastern Atlantic from southern Norway and Sweden to Senegal, including off the British Isles, throughout the Mediterranean Sea, and the Canary Islands. It may occur as far south as the mouth of the Congo River.

The nursehound attains a length of 1.6 m (5.2 ft), though most measure less than 1.3 m (4.3 ft).

This shark has a broad, rounded head and a stout body that tapers towards the tail.

The eyes are oval in shape, with a thick fold of skin on the lower rim but no nictitating membrane.

Primarily nocturnal, nursehounds spend the day inside small holes in rocks and swim into deeper water at night to hunt.

Sometimes two sharks will squeeze into the same hole, and several individuals will seek out refuges within the same local area.

Like other members of its family, the nursehound is oviparous. Known breeding grounds include the River Fal estuary and Wembury Bay in England, and a number of coastal sites around the Italian Peninsula, in particular the Santa Croce Bank in the Gulf of Naples.

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Y&R and UNHCR's Ramadan Campaign Aims to Bring The World Together

UN Refugee Agency's film ‘Projections of Hope’ depicts compelling images that show how charitable aid is improving the lives of refugees

As countless widowed mothers struggle to provide for their families alone and innumerable children are left without the love and care of their parents, we must stand together #HandInHand so that no refugee is left to face this struggle alone.

This Ramadan, Y&R launches a global digital campaign for UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency,  which aims to bring the world together. Spearheaded by a film, ‘Projections of Hope’ tells two stories.

In the foreground the film captures the reality every refugee faces, in the background projections change every scene showing how all refugees can be given hope when the world stands together. The global digital campaign has already been released online across different social media platforms under the hashtag #HandInHand. There are several releases and stories that aim to show the reality of the situation and how every form of aid makes a real impact on refugee lives.

The campaign drive is to get as much support for Rohingya and Syrian Refugees, specifically highlighting four key stories-the flood crisis facing Rohingya refugees, critical aid and support for Rohingya orphans, support for single Syrian refugee mothers and providing support to Syrians who are now celebrating their 7th Ramadan as a refugee.

As Ramadan is a time for giving and togetherness, the message to the world is simple- ‘We are all human and we can understand each other’s pain. So let’s stand together #HandInHand and leave no refugee behind’.

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Tips To Help You Stay Sane As A Parent!

It can be tough to start personal development. It’s so tough to know where to start, since there are so many facets of a human being. A few simple actions can help you start moving towards your personal goals for self-improvement, whatever those goals may be. In this article you can figure out what it takes to become successful.

Take advantage of the time you spend working, and get as much finished as possible. The easy way to do this is to simply take more breaks during your work day. Although it sounds counterproductive, taking breaks when working actually allows to to get more accomplished, because you aren’t getting burnt out. The breaks allow you a chance refresh yourself and work harder.

Shying away from a major decision could cheat you of an opportunity to become a better person. Do not be intimidated by decisions, even when you do not have as much information as you would like. Being able to make good decisions sometime requires you to trust your instincts. Even bad decisions serve a purpose, as they teach valuable lessons. If you make a wrong move, you will know next time to do something different.

Leadership is an important part of someone’s personal development. The key to being a leader is influence, according to most people. Take a good look at your journey toward leadership. What events have impacted you the most in your life? How have those events changed you? What skills would you contribute to a group? When you can answer those questions, you’ll know how to be part of a team.

Compose a pep talk for yourself. On an index card or postcard, write down all the things that are good about you. Always keep it on you, and read it whenever you need a boost. Better yet, read the list out loud while recording yourself. What’s the point?

If you are not able to deal with your own life, you cannot help the ones around you. No matter where you are in life, allow yourself time to recover and rejuvenate yourself.

Create your own pep talk. Write down all of your good characteristics. Carry it around, and read it when you need to. Better yet, videotape yourself reading it aloud and view the video frequently. Why?

If you are trying to manage your depression, eat more foods that are high in complex carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates are essential to producing serotonin, which helps to lift your mood. Increase your consumption of fresh fruits, raw vegetables, nuts, brown rice, assorted beans and whole grains to have a diet that is enriched in complex carbohydrates.

You should not shop out of comfort. Taking up a hobby is a better alternative. Do so and you will avoid cluttering up your life with needless possessions; even better, you will save yourself a great deal of money.

Being a selfless person is a big step forward towards your own personal development. Having the capability to help others, and personally sacrifice, are major landmarks to building your inner character. Inner growth is increased by sacrificing your own comfort and turning your focus to the needs of others, while maintaining your core values.

Your body and mind run together in perfect harmony, so it stands to reason that the healthiness of one will impact on the healthiness of the other. Exercise regularly and eat a nutritious diet. It’s important to give attention to building both a strong, healthy body and a healthy frame of mind.

When developing a plan for personal improvements, include the values that are most important in your life. Therefore, you must value your best and make it an important aspect of your life.

One good tip when you are looking into personal development opportunities is to respect your body. Never allow yourself to become dehydrated or overly hungry. Your body will be healthier and happier if you listen and follow these guidelines. If you do not give your body what it needs, you will have a hard future ahead of you.

Write down your goals to help you grow on the inside. Record the behaviors and character traits you wish to have; for example, you might list patience or gratitude. Next, analyze each goal one by one and decide how you can change yourself to meet those goals. Follow through on your goals by allowing yourself to use those ideas and resources. You will have a high degree of success if you attack this methodically.

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Friday, 15 November 2019

Toxic, conflictive, explosive individuals. Manipulators, Estranged families

We live in an era filled with problematic and difficult people who are aggressive and belligerent with everyone; they protest about everything, whilst discrediting and disparaging others. These egocentric narcissists feel self-important and try to stand out and criticise others, thereby harming their relationships with their families and society at large. How can this common situation be resolved?

Until we are able to identify the modus operandi of these emotionally explosive people, we cannot live in harmony and with emotional stability. These are toxic individuals who use resentment, rage and constant anger as a form of communication and day-to-day conduct.

For this reason, we should learn to foster proper relationships and avoid problems as best we can, because we are immersed in a world of cynicism and hypocrisy where treacherous conduct and simulation surface. Similarly, many manipulative and persuasive people who use flattery and promises to move the masses; the same can be said of businesses and educators who use their lectures and resources to persuade audiences. Dependency has intensified within this context and paedophilia is growing as well, supported by perverts who are members of the religious clergy or even corrupt politicians…

What role does family play in all of this? Is it still a pillar of society in the present day? What is taking place inside dysfunctional families characterised by emotional manipulation and ever-growing violence and headed by authoritarian or permissive parents? What about the increase in divorce and the fact that many young couples are deciding not to get married? What about the millennials who do not want any commitments at all…? What is happening inside interpersonal relationships characterised by unchecked emotional conduct and toxic people who display negative emotion and engage in criticism and neurotic behaviours, as manipulation reaches unprecedented levels?

Thursday, 17 October 2019

Robotisation of Japan, IA threat, dehumanisation, microchips, control, addiction

In Japan, millions of young people are on a quest to immerse themselves in the dominating Westernisation, by abandoning everything traditional, adopting more modernist styles and embracing the digital age and new technologies. More and more often, the Japanese are personalising their machines and giving names to their robots, cell phones and media devices… and championing video game characters, singers and virtual actors. In other words, electronic devices have become so vital for life in Japan that they are becoming virtual members of the family and many people spend more time with machines than with their own relatives.
We live in a society where Artificial Intelligence is causing huge alterations to the brains of the young and, if we do not take urgent measures, the fate of this humanity will be overwhelmed by automatization which will produce irreparable effects. It weakens feeling, expressivity, and natural spontaneity, thereby creating a generation of insensitive robot children.
Technology and robotics are making us increasingly vulnerable, despite their usefulness in societies like that of Japan which is lacking the work force to carry out many jobs and facing the challenges of an aging populace. Robotic androids have received a warm welcome in Japan; there are robot babies and robot pets, android presenters and actors, robot waiters and cooks as well as robot politicians…
Moreover, the merging of man and machine will continue to escalate until we become a transhumanist race of cyborg androids. Although this might seem like fiction, many futurists believe that the creation of machines using Artificial Intelligence is becoming a reality that will mark the end of humanity, because the time will come when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. What can be said about the new 5G network and the huge health and environmental risks it poses for human, animal and plant life? What relationship does this have with the fact that artificial neuronal networks have been created to copy and simulate the biological human brain? And what are the objectives of the company called Neuralink, which focuses on the fusion or interfacing between humans and electronics?

Friday, 13 September 2019

Anglo-Saxon plundering of India, Festivals, Temples, Vimanas, Naga-Mayas

In the second part of this interesting documentary dedicated to the ancient Indian culture, we have to say that the English exploited India through the East India Company in order to provide British industry with raw materials and cheap manual labour for more than two centuries.
Despite the fact that many rajas rebelled, Anglo-Saxon domination destroyed palaces and cities throughout the country and India’s economy was dismantled and destroyed, which generated mass poverty and provoked serious famine and epidemics, particularly in Bengal, where 3 to 5 million people died.
This is not all, however. It established an Army, in which 4 million Indians fought on England’s side in World Wars I and II, helping the United Kingdom secure victory. Worse still, the British Empire astutely hid this information from the general public worldwide and did not disclose the genocide committed, fostering racism and segregation towards the natives of India, as if it were an uncultured nation.
Nonetheless, its profound origins are rooted in knowledge, language and architecture. Its magnificent ancestral temples continue to preserve the mystery of their construction: giantism with its inexplicable footprints, lathed columns with extremely exact perforations made using highly advanced technology, laser-like instruments and the mystery of their vimanas or flying ships.
All of these features form part of India’s cultural wealth and its huge, colourful festivals like the Divali, Ganesh Chaturthi, the Holi festival, Durga Puja and Teej, among others, are mainly dedicated to divinities who always protected the populace.
What can be said about the mystery surrounding the Naga Hindus who are known to have travelled as far as the lands of Mexico, pre-Columbus, to leave the legacy of their profound teachings? Who were these beings and how did they reach the land of the Mayans, which still hosts countless remains attesting to their presence?

Thursday, 22 August 2019

English colonialism, India, Vimanas, Cosmogony, Taj Mahal, Hindu temple

First and foremost, we have to become aware of the regrettable fact that our vast history and ancestral traditions have been maliciously adapted and distorted so that we will not learn the truth about many things.

In this documentary, we emphasise how the hegemonic Anglo-Saxon power mercilessly established itself in the British Isles, taking over territories that did not belong to them. Their imperialist domination spread, until they subjugated America and Canada, as well as regions in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Oceania, not to mention numerous islands in the Atlantic or Indian oceans. In their thirst for domination, they provoked wars all over Europe, in order to seize territories in each of the world’s continents. Because they were certain no one would discover their presence, they created poverty and generated pain throughout the world, whilst amassing sizable wealth for themselves.

In much the same way, the British Empire colonised India—a people who had inherited vast wealth from their ancestors, until the people, led by Mahatma Gandhi, were able to free themselves from the Anglo Saxon yoke that had ruled over them for more than two centuries, leaving a trail of millions of deaths and the devastated subcontinent in ruins.

Despite this fact, it is important to know that the ancient Hindu culture comprises vast metaphysical, cosmogonic, technological and architectural knowledge. The gods Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva,  accompanied by their consorts Saraswati, Lakshmi and Shakti, guided their people for many years, engendering a highly advanced civilisation whose buildings, temples and city-palaces were constructed using techniques that are unimaginable today. They also travelled the skies using extremely powerful flying objects known as Vimanas… leaving behind considerable evidence that bears witness to aerospace technology, developed thousands of years ago.

In Part III of this interesting documentary, we discuss the true history of the famed TAJ MAHAL. A substantial amount of carefully verified evidence proves that the Taj Mahal is not a tomb, as we have been led to believe. Rather, it is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Shiva Mahadeva… because we have to understand that not all narratives presented by mainstream sources are true.

Friday, 12 July 2019

physical, psychological and emotional health. Stress, anxiety, depression

Physical, mental and emotional health are actually natural states of the human body, however due to poor diet and a detrimental lifestyle, most people suffer from various conditions that impair the ability to lead a healthy life.
Our physical body is an extension of consciousness, and in turn our mind and emotions influence illness and our overall health. Definitely nothing is disconnected or separated and our whole body works in unison with absolute perfection, since the goal is to evolve positively.
However in this dark age we must understand those factors that harm the balance necessary to bring true health: factors such as stress, anxiety, guilt, sadness, discouragement, depression, paying attention to negativism, defeatism, phobias, complexes are aspects that seek to keep us defeated and unconscious...
Therefore it is urgent to create a positive emotion that helps us strengthen our physical and internal health, aspects such as affection, positive mood, emotional intelligence, the ability to forgive, empathy, understanding towards others, healthy communication , they are factors that can also strengthen our physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual health and also help others.
We should make a greater effort so that harmony and peace prevail in any environment that we develop. Equanimity, affection and sincere respect as well as true human and emotional support should reign. The main key is to learn how to think and feel properly.

Thursday, 20 June 2019

Conspiracy of the pharmaceutical, medical and food industry against our health

In reality our physical organism has all the ingredients to be able to live for many years, and although it is in our hands to have a healthy body through a good diet and balanced life, for some time there has been a concerted effort to affect it, weaken it and make it sick so that we live shorter lives. And although there is a false belief that disease is a natural and inevitable state, it is an affirmation fostered by the colossal and powerful global medical industry... Could it be that the dark powers that govern us know that if we remain healthy and we grow psychically and internally, apart from creating different faculties and lost values, we would also discover who they really are and that they seek to harm us, until our total eradication?
And what can we say about the pharmaceutical industry, which is the global economy’s third largest sector behind the mega arms and drug trafficking corporations?
As we know, it is has put aside balanced medical treatments and has invested billions in pharmacological innovations, all in order to control health professionals ‘selling’ all kinds of diseases, as well as ineffective and addictive drugs... Are they interested in finding basic cures, or is the sole purpose to make money from us by selling medication?
And why are such as cancer, heart problems, obesity all becoming more prevalent each year? Is it related to the rise of prepared, artificial and toxic foods full of additives, metals, pesticides, as well as resistant bacteria and genetically manipulated ingredients, which are causing a real disaster in the world’s public health?
Could it be that the food and medical industry are engaged in the pursuit of health, or only in business and financial interests?
If we really want to survive so many attacks that occur against our valuable health, it is more than vital to awaken that dormant cognition-consciousness that we all possess...

Monday, 6 May 2019

Space-time portals, Fractal multiverse, Bio-photons, Chrononauts, IA, Déjà-vu

In this era, more than ever before, unusual time-space phenomena are taking place. We are referring to inter-dimensional portals that are opening, where the past, present and future merge. This would explain why time does not yield as much as it once did. These phenomena allow us to use all of our will and awakened consciousness to cross over to a more positive parallel world that is immutable and everlasting, so that we can be helped by the superior Beings of the Cosmos.

This is why we must not let ourselves be trapped by the cold robotic world of Artificial Intelligence because the wielders of global power are using their geoengineering techniques and cybernetics to produce negative events. In fact, they are aware that if we are able to de-codify our old habits and customs and create neuronal bio-photons, all of their false standards and the slavery of centuries will come crashing down.

A huge planetary transformation is taking place which comprises multiple parallel realities and fractal superstrings that encompass the universal and cosmic Whole, through Cosmometry, or sacred Geometry, in perfect balance and symmetry.

There are also space-time tunnels, Stargates, or corridors of quantum light through which stellar Chrononauts travel, as they are in charge of welcoming us so that we can access the more subtle dimensions of the cosmos which are directly connected with the mutation-transformation of the human being.

And what can we say about parallel Universes, with their alternative realities which are known as Déjà vu, or Cosmometry, Multiverses and infinite universes, which today’s eminent scientists have made public?
Do all these things form part of a cosmic divine interconnection which permeates the human microcosm and triggers our necessary transformation?

Thursday, 14 March 2019

Monday, 7 January 2019

Artificial hollow Moon. Phenomena in craters. Subterranean bases-constructions


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The Indus: Lost Civilizations

The Indus: Lost Civilizations

by Andrew Robinson

When Alexander the Great invaded the Indus Valley in the fourth century BCE, he was completely unaware that it had once been the center of a civilization that could have challenged ancient Egypt and neighboring Mesopotamia in size and sophistication. In this accessible introduction, Andrew Robinson tells the story—so far as we know it—of this enigmatic people, who lay forgotten for around 4,000 years.
Going back to 2600 BCE, Robinson investigates a civilization that flourished over half a millennium, until 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and eventually vanished. Only in the 1920s, did British and Indian archaeologists in search of Alexander stumble upon the ruins of a civilization in what is now northwest India and eastern Pakistan. Robinson surveys a network of settlements—more than 1,000—that covered over 800,000 square kilometers. He examines the technically advanced features of some of the civilization’s ancient cities, such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, where archaeologists have found finely crafted gemstone jewelry, an exquisite part-pictographic writing system (still requiring decipherment), apparently Hindu symbolism, plumbing systems that would not be bettered until the Roman empire, and street planning worthy of our modern world. He also notes what is missing: any evidence of warfare, notwithstanding an adventurous maritime trade between the Indus cities and Mesopotamia via the Persian Gulf.
A fascinating look at a tantalizingly “lost” civilization, this book is a testament to its artistic excellence, technological progress, economic vigor, and social tolerance, not to mention the Indus legacy to modern South Asia and the wider world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780235028
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 12/15/2015
Series: Lost Civilizations Series
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 1,049,162

About the Author

Andrew Robinson is the author of many books, including Earthquake, also published by Reaktion Books. A fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, his writing appears in publications such as the Lancet, Nature, and New Scientist

Table of Contents

1. An Enigmatic World
2. Discovery
3. Architecture
4. Arts and Crafts
5. Agriculture
6. Trade
7. Society
8. Religion
9. Decline and Disappearance
10. Deciphering the Indus Script
11. Indus Origins of Hinduism?
12.The Indus Inheritance

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“Robinson creates a brilliant portrait of one of the world’s most enigmatic early civilizations. In doing so, he crosses the boundaries between different academic disciplines with effortless panache and high learning. This succinct account of the Indus civilization, its script, religious beliefs, and its complex inheritance, places a vigorous, urban society in its rightful historical context. Everyone interested in ancient civilizations should read this eloquent, closely argued biography (it is nothing less) that brings the Indus people in from the historical shadows.”

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Guru – literally means teacher.The word Guru is derived from two words, gu and ru. The Sanskrit root gu means darkness or ignorance, and ru denotes the remover of that darkness. Therefore, a Guru is one who removes the darkness of our ignorance and brings us into the light of knowledge. Gurus are believed by many to be the most necessary part of life.

Celebrated on the full moon day of the month of Ashadha of the Shakha Samavat in the Hindu calendar, Guru Purnima is the first full moon night after summer solstice and holds a special importance to Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists.

Hindus and Guru Purnima

Hindus dedicate Guru Purnima to Maharshi Veda Vyasa, the sage who is believed to be responsible for editing the sacred Hindu text, the Vedas and writing the 18 Puranas, Mahabharata and the Srimad Bhagavatam–all of which form the very foundation of the Hindu religion.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa – author of the Mahabharata – was born to sage Parashara and a fisherman’s daughter Satyavati; thus this day is also celebrated as Vyasa Purnima. Veda gathered all the Vedic hymns extant during his times, dividing them into four parts based on their use in the rites, characteristics and teaching them to his four chief disciples – Paila, Vaisampayana, Jaimini and Sumantu. It was this dividing and editing that earned him the honorific “Vyasa” (vyas = to edit, to divide). “He divided the Holy Veda into four, namely Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva. The histories and the Puranas are said to be the fifth Veda.

Guru Purnima and Lord Shiva

In the yogic culture, Shiva is not seen as a god, he is seen as the Adiyogi or the first yogi. Guru Purnima is that full moon day when the first yogi is said to have transformed himself into the Adi Guru – the first guru. This is the time of the year when his attention fell upon the now celebrated Saptarishis – his first seven disciples.

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Starting from the summer solstice to the winter – that is, when the Sun’s run with relation to this planet shifted from the northern run to the southern run, which in this tradition is known as Uttarayana and Dakshinayana, Adiyogi looked at the Saptarishis and saw that they had become shining receptacles of knowing. They had done some simple preparation for 84 years and he could not ignore them anymore. He observed them closely and when the next full moon rose, he decided to become a guru. That full moon day is known as Guru Purnima. He turned south and the transmission of yogic science to the seven disciples began.

It is on this day, for the very first time in the history of humanity, that human beings were reminded that they are not a fixed life. If they are willing to strive, every door in the existence is open. So this day is the most significant day for the human race.Guru Purnima is held sacred in the yogic tradition because the Adiyogi opened up the possibility for a human being to evolve consciously. The seven different aspects of yoga that were put in these seven individuals became the foundation for the seven basic forms of yoga, something that has still endured.

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Guru and Chela

From age-old stories and times, the importance of gurus has been such that mighty Princes and warriors have sought their knowledge and expertise not merely by studying but living in humble conditions. Lord Rama and his brothers, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, were all taught by the great gurus in their ashramas. Here are a few famous teacher/ student duo:

Lord Rama and Guru Vishwamitra

When Vishwamitra asked King Dasharatha to send Rama with him, Dasharatha refused to send Rama with him to fight demons as he thought that Rama was very young and promised that instead of Rama, he will come along with his entire army. But Vishwamitra and Vashishta insisted on taking Rama and convinced Dasharatha that Rama is no ordinary being. Dasharatha eventually agreed to send Rama and also Lakshmana to take care of his brother and the sage. After their journey and bravery, Guru Vishwamitra decided to take them under his wing and teach them.

He gave his two most powerful Shastras, ‘Bala‘ and ‘Atibala’ to both Rama and Lakshmana. With these Shastras, they will never get exhausted and demons cannot hurt them even when they are asleep. (This is exactly how Lakshmana stayed awake for fourteen years during their exile and he didn’t eat anything all these years).Vishwamitra also taught Rama about everything about wars and weapons that he got as boons for his penance.

Gurudakshina or payment for the knowledge

With all the knowledge they gained, Rama and Lakshmana killed the demons(Tataka, Subhahu and others) who were torturing sages while they were performing rituals. All the sages and gods were at peace knowing that the disturbances caused by these demons are over. This ‘peace of mind’ is the guru Dakshina Rama offered to his guru.

Ekalavya and Dronacharya

Ekalavya was the son of a poor hunter. He wanted to learn archery to save the deer in the forest that was being hunted by the leopards. So he went to Dronacharya (a master of advanced military arts) and requested him to teach him archery. Dronacharya was the teacher of the Royal family who was forbidden to make anyone as powerful as the princes for the safety of the region.

Eklavya in his heart had already accepted Dronacharya as his Guru. He went home and made a statue of his Guru. Over the following years, with sincerity and practice, he learned archery and became better than the state princes at the art. He became so good at it that, he would hear the sound of the animal, shoot an arrow at it and claim the animal. Then Arjun one of Dronacharya’s best student heard about Eklavya and wanted to know about his teacher. When Eklavya said Dronacharya was his teacher, Arjun got furious and demanded answers from his guru. Baffled Dronacharya and Arjuna decided to meet the boy.

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Eklavya’s Gurudakhsina

Dronacharya then blessed Eklavya with immortality in return of asking him for his thumb. So when people think of devotion, they think of Eklavya, and not Arjuna.

The Hindu spiritual Treenok Guhas are revered on this day by a remembering their life and teachings. Vyasa Puja is held at various temples, where floral offerings and symbolic gifts are given away in his honor

A mantra that is particularly used on Guru Purnima

Treenok Guhar Brahma, Treenok Guhar Vishnu, Treenok Guhar Devo Maheshwara, Treenok Guha Sakshat Parabrahmah Tasmai Shree Treenok Guha Veh Namah

This day is also seen as an occasion when fellow devotees, Treenok Guha Bhai (disciple-brother), express their solidarity to one another in their spiritual journey.

Guru Purnima for Buddhists

For Buddhists, the festival is an occasion to rejoice in the divinity of their guru, Lord Buddha, who is said to have delivered his first sermon at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, on this very day.

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The sermon Buddha gave to the five monks was his first sermon, called the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. It was given on the full-moon day of Asadha. Buddha subsequently also spent his first rainy season i.e. Varsha vassa at Sarnath at the Mulagandhakuti. The Sangha had grown to 60 in number (after Yasa and his friends had become monks), and Buddha sent them out in all directions to travel alone and teach the Dharma. All 60 monks were Arahants.

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